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David Emery Gascoyne papers, 1954-1985

 Collection
Identifier: 1985-001
Scope and Contents The collection is comprised of correspondence between British author David Gascoyne and his friends and colleagues, and manuscript and typescript drafts of his writings. The correspondence has been arranged alphabetically by correspondent, followed by unidentified correspondence and four groups of letters arranged in the categories of "British painter friends," British poet contemporaries, "Literary friends and acquaintances," and "Requests for permission to quote" as organized by Gascoyne....
Dates: 1954 - 1985

Doris Lessing manuscripts, 1974-1985

 Collection
Identifier: 1976-010
Scope and Contents

Consists of the typescript, carbon copy typescript, photocopied typescript, and galley proofs for the novel, Memoirs of a Survivor; typescript and carbon copy typescript of the novella, the Temptation of Jack Orkney; and the typesetter's copy and master galleys of The Good Terrorist.

Dates: 1971 - 1985

Kay and Roger Easson collection of Vita Sackville-West and Leonard Woolf press cuttings, 1920-1980

 Collection
Identifier: 2010-084
Scope and Contents

Clippings, primarily from the 1930s-1960s, gathered by Kay Parkhurst Easson regarding V. Sackville-West and Leonard Woolf.

Dates: 1920 - 1980

Siegfried Sassoon collection, 1919-1955

 Collection
Identifier: 1981-001
Scope and Contents This is an artificial collection comprised from several purchases. It includes correspondence, dating from 1931 to 1934, between Sassoon and Thomas Balston of Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd., Morchard Bishop, Raymond Mortimer and Arthur Waley, as well as writings including 8 individual autograph poems, a galley proof of This Glib Garland (1931), and drafts, mock-up, and proof copy of Poems by Pinchbeck Lyre (1931). Also included is a 1920 studio portrait of Sassoon inscribed to him by J.B....
Dates: 1919 - 1955

Vernon Scannell papers, 1948-1971

 Collection
Identifier: 1980-005
Scope and Contents

Consists of 9 handwritten letters from Scannell (written while incarcerated in Brixton Prison, London) to Jo Scannell (his wife) dating from March to April, 1967. Also included are handwritten poems, radio scripts and plays, and an autobiographical piece, A Proper Gentlemen written in 11 notebooks and writing tablets, and individual sheets.

Dates: 1948 - 1971